Giant dinosaurs next big exhibit at Museum Center

4:27 AM,
Apr. 16, 2013

This is Giganotosaurus, a.k.a 'Giant Southern Lizard.' He is Late Cretaceous period (95 million years ago) and the southern hemisphere cousin of the T-Rex. He may be largest land predator ever to have lived. He is largest carnivorous dinosaur from Gondwana, approximately 13 meters long (about 43 feet) and stood about 3 meters high (about 10 feet) at the hips, weigh 6,000 kg (approximately 13,000 pounds). His skull is longer and less robust than T-Rex, featuring blade like teeth better for slicing meat. T-Rex has more of a bone crushing jaw.

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Steven Rosen
| Enquirer contributor

After successfully completing an exhibition featuring 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls, Cincinnati Museum Center will next turn to something really old for a blockbuster show - dinosaurs.

The U.S. premiere of Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana is set for June 13. The show features bones, fossils and skeletal casts of unusual dinosaurs who roamed the southern hemisphere during the Mesozoic period, 250 million to 65 million years ago. They existed long before the first humans evolved.

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